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The Sustainable Nonprofit
Mary Genis Fire, Aim, Ready: Why Most Foundation-Funded Capacity Building Efforts Miss the Mark
by Mary Genis
Mary Genis, a leadership development expert and executive director of the Tyra Banks TZONE Foundation, offers tips and strategies for refocusing the content and delivery of traditional capacity-building efforts....
2/14/08

Spending Your Web Site Dollars Wisely
by Karen Roberts
12/20/07

Philanthropy's Role in Succession Planning: How Funders Can Assist Grantee Organizations in Preparing for Leadership Change
by Tom Adams and Kim Moore
11/02/07

Inclusiveness...It's Good for Business
by Naomi Harris
9/27/07

Is Your Grass the Greenest? Fifteen (Cost-Effective) Ways to Help You "Keep Your Keepers"
by Joanne G. Sujansky, Ph.D.
8/29/07


MyCareer@PND
Through an arrangement with Commongood Careers, a national search firm dedicated to helping today's most effective social entrepreneurs hire the best talent, PND is pleased to offer a series of articles for jobseekers and hiring organizations.

Insider Tips For Working the Room at a Career Fair
by Commongood Careers
By the end of 2008, Commongood Careers will have participated in over one hundred career fairs across the country. To date, we have met thousands of nonprofit jobseekers, some who have impressed us and others who have left us underwhelmed. Based on this experience, we've prepared a set of tips to help jobseekers gain valuable information, make important connections, and create positive impressions with hiring organizations at career fairs....
6/27/08

How to Handle Tough Interview Questions
by Commongood Careers
6/03/08

A Look at Four Nonprofit Career Profiles
by Commongood Careers
5/17/08

Making the Leap from College to the Nonprofit Sector
by Commongood Careers
4/23/08

The Case for MBAs in the Nonprofit Sector
by Commongood Careers
4/02/08


SSIR@PND
Through an agreement with the Stanford Social Innovation Review, PND is pleased to be able to offer a series of articles and profiles related to the “business” of improving society.

The BOP Beckons
by Joshua Weissburg
How do you go about delivering reliable energy to poor, off-the-grid villages in India? If you're an established energy company, you don't. Enter Decentralised Energy Systems (DESI Power), a young, India-based power company that built a biomass gasification plant that runs on inexpensive agricultural residues such as ipomoea, a weed plentiful throughout the Indian countryside....
6/17/08

Garden-Variety Revolution
by Leslie Berger
5/30/08

The Greening of Wal-Mart
by Lyn Denend, Erica Plambeck
5/07/08

More Bang for the Buck
by Robert Searle, Alex Neuhoff
4/16/08

MBAs Gone Wild
by James W. Shepard, Jr.
3/26/08


TechSoup@PND
Through an arrangement with TechSoup, PND is pleased to offer a series of articles about the effective use of technology by nonprofits.

Is Your Organization Prepared for a Disaster?
by Rohish Lal
While your organization may not be able to control or prevent catastrophes, drafting an organized and detailed disaster plan can help minimize the loss of valuable data or equipment. In turn, your nonprofit can recover from an emergency more quickly and begin helping your constituents get through the crisis....
6/10/08

10 Steps to Being Found on Search Engines
by Laura S. Quinn
5/21/08

How Nonprofits Can Get the Most out of Flickr
by Beth Kanter
5/02/08

The True Costs of Free and Low-Cost Software
by Michelle Murrain
4/10/08

Vistas of Equal Access
by Jennifer Anthony
3/20/08


Nonprofits By Design
Storytelling and the Brand: A Thousand Words....and Loads of Pictures
DK Holland discusses the need to keep a brand fresh, and provides a set of tools to help you come up with copy and images that will enhance the effectiveness of your organization's brand identity.
by DK Holland
8/17/05

The Big Switcheroo: Implementing Your New Brand
by DK Holland
4/14/05

The Devil's in the Details: From Inspiration to Implementation
by DK Holland
12/30/04

Finding the Sweet Spot
by DK Holland
9/28/04

The Design Process: Taking It in Phases
by DK Holland
6/21/04


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